Václav Havel

Václav Havel with Ivan Martin Jirous, Trutnov, August 23, 2008

Citizen Havel and citizen Jirous. Two seniors.
Backstage at the Open Air Trutnov rock festival, also known as the Trutnov Woodstock, which Václav Havel visited whenever he spent August at his cottage in Hrádeček. For me, this is a symbolic meeting of two giants, connected by a life lived without freedom. Both prisoners of conscience. Both persecuted by the Communists and their collaborators. Both passed away in the same year, 2011.
The heroes of my life. #theynevergaveup

Black-and-white photograph
Author: Tomki Němec
Signed, numbered limited edition (total of 17 copies)
Image / framed size: 40 × 60 cm / 57 × 76 cm
Archival Giclée / pigment print, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome
Mounted on Dibond aluminium sandwich panel, 2 mm, to ensure perfect flatness
Certificate of Authenticity
Prepared for framing with museum-grade UV-protective glass

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Václav Havel with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, during her visit to Czechoslovakia.
Prague, Wenceslas Square, September 18, 1990

Black-and-white photograph
Author: Tomki Němec
Image size: 40 × 60 cm
Signed, numbered limited edition (total of 5 + 2 copies)
Archival Giclée / pigment print, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, 2 mm, ensuring perfect flatness
Prepared for framing with museum-grade UV-protective glass

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Václav Havel receiving an honorary doctorate at Columbia University in the presence of his friend Miloš Forman.
Columbia University, New York, USA, February 1990

Black-and-white photograph
Author: Tomki Němec
Image size: 40 × 60 cm
Signed, numbered limited edition (total of 5 + 2 copies)
Archival Giclée / pigment print, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, 2 mm, ensuring perfect flatness
Prepared for framing with museum-grade UV-protective glass

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Dinner with King Carl XVI Gustaf, Stockholm, May 22, 1991

The Havels. The First Couple. Olga and Václav. I never posed them—they didn’t like it, and neither did I. I prefer photographing spontaneous moments rather than arranging scenes. In this case, the President asked me, so that settled it. Václav was wearing a new tailcoat—probably rented, as I vaguely recall. I wouldn’t swear to it, though. In any case, a beautiful couple. I could no longer accompany them to the formal dinner with the King and the Queen Mother. Protocol can sometimes be a photographer’s “enemy.”

Black-and-white photograph
Author: Tomki Němec
Signed, numbered limited edition (total of 5 + 2 copies)
Image size: 60 × 90 cm
Archival Giclée / pigment print, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, 2 mm, ensuring perfect flatness
Prepared for framing with museum-grade UV-protective glass

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Václav Havel, an Unplanned Stop at Ruzyně Prison
Prague, March 17, 1990

On his way to the airport—where he was to depart by helicopter for a meeting with Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa—Václav Havel made an unplanned visit to Ruzyně Prison. Just a year earlier, he himself had been held there in pre-trial detention.
The photograph was taken moments before the gate opened, after the president knocked on it. The subsequent reaction of the prison service was directly proportional to their surprise at this impromptu visit…

Black-and-white photograph
Author: Tomki Němec
Signed, numbered limited edition (total 5 + 2)
Image size: 60 × 90 cm
Print: Archival Giclée / Pigment print, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome
Mounting: Dibond aluminium, 2 mm (for absolute flatness)
Ready for framing with museum-grade UV-protective glass

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Václav Havel, Lány Castle, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Spring 1990 – morning after a sleepless night

black-and-white photograph
author: Tomki Němec
signed, numbered limited edition / total of 5 + 2 /
image size: 60 × 90 cm
archival Giclée / pigment print, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome
mounted on 2 mm Dibond aluminium for absolute flatness of the photograph
prepared for framing with museum glass with UV protection

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Václav Havel, České Budějovice, 1990
“God Is on the Tribune”

A photograph that encapsulates everything people felt about their newly gained freedom after the fall of the Iron Curtain. A new era, filled with hope for the fulfillment of new dreams. People gathered in the square watch and listen with reverence to Václav Havel’s speech.

Black-and-white photograph
Author: Tomki Němec
Signed, numbered limited edition (total of 5 + 2)
Image size: 60 × 90 cm
Archival Giclée / pigment print, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome
Mounted on 2 mm Dibond aluminum for absolute flatness
Prepared for framing with museum glass with UV protection

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Václav Havel, Ottawa, Canada, 1990

To the amusement of the entire entourage—including personal bodyguards and police—Václav Havel swung himself onto the saddle of a Harley-Davidson police motorcycle belonging to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Accompanied by growling sounds coming from his mouth (“grrrrhhhrrr”), he put on a wild, playful show, riding one of the true legends of the motorcycle world.

Black-and-white photograph
Author: Tomki Němec
Signed, numbered limited edition (total of 5 + 2 AP)
Image size: 33 × 50 cm

Printing: Archival Giclée / Pigment print
Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome inks

Mounting: Laminated on 2 mm aluminum Dibond to ensure absolute flatness
Prepared for framing with museum-grade UV-protective glass

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Václav Havel, Prague, December 19, 1989
Student demonstration in front of the Federal Assembly building in support of Václav Havel during a session of the Communist parliament. Prague, December 19, 1989.

Black-and-white photograph
Author: Tomki Němec
Image size: 40 × 60 cm
Signed, numbered limited edition (total of 5 + 2 AP)
Archival Giclée pigment print, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome
Mounted on 2 mm Dibond aluminium to ensure perfect flatness
Prepared for framing with museum-grade UV-protective glass

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Václav Havel, The Final Moments in Office. Prague Castle, February 2, 2003
The last ride by elevator to the underground garages, accompanied by personal bodyguards.

black-and-white photograph
author: Tomki Němec
signed, numbered limited edition /total of 5 + 2/
image size: 60 × 90 cm

archival Giclée pigment print, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome
mounted on 2 mm Dibond aluminium – ensuring absolute flatness of the photograph
prepared for framing with museum glass featuring UV protection

If you are interested in the photograph, please contact me to arrange a meeting at my studio, where I can provide additional information and present various options for mounting and sizes.

Václav Havel, Ružomberok, Slovensko, 1990
Sbližování s místními…

Při pracovních (a předvolebních) cestách po Slovensku byl prezident často zván místními na pivo, skleničku nebo panáka. Někdy bylo těžké odmítnout – nebo se tomu vůbec vyhnout.
Jako tehdy, v jedné ružomberské krčmě, během volební tour po Slovensku.

černobílá fotografie
autor: Tomki Němec

• signovaná, číslovaná limitovaná edice (celkový počet 5 + 2)

• velikost obrazové části fotografie: 60 × 90 cm

• archivní Giclée–Pigmentový tisk, Hahnemühle Baryta paper, Epson Ultrachrome

• adjustováno na Dibond Aluminium 2 mm – pro zachování absolutní roviny fotografie

• připraveno k adjustaci do rámu s muzeálním sklem s UV ochranou

V případě zájmu o fotografii mě prosím kontaktujte, abychom si domluvili termín osobní schůzky v mém studiu, kde mohu poskytnout doplňující informace a ukázat různé možnosti adjustace a velikostí fotografie.